The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-06
RANCH LIFE OF GIRLS.
They Amuse Themselves by Shooting
Wolves-A Girls Quick Shot.
from The Dakota Trfb1tIle.


From the Dakota Tribune
och, yes, was & cowboy for four years, y
said Mr.. A B. Thomas, son of Paymaster
Thomas, of the Detroit, Grand Haven and
Milwaukee railroad. 81 went out there to
look around. was just IS and had great
fancy for Western frontier life. When |
reached Northwestern Kansas between the
Solomon and Republican rivers, happened
to get on the trail of a herd of stock and
was invited to join the herders. | did SO,
and for three or four days was the sorest
youngster that ever straddled horse You
see, they just live in the saddle and was a
tenderfoot or pork and beans pilgrim, as
they call Eastern boys. But l soon learned
to handle revolver like the rest of them.
Everybody carries a revolver. One needs
to defend himself from the wild stock, and
also to defend the stock against wolves Any
wolvess Well, should say so--both the big
gray wolf and the coyotes, which are prairie
wolves, small but sneaky
at isn't always the pleasantest thing to
take hand in with wolf. The first time,
own up, / was little scared. 1t hap
pened this way--I was with a Cleveland
girl-by the way, the nerviest girl / ever
saw. She had been spending some little
time at the ranch and had learned to use a
revolver We were on the prairie when we
saw two big grays standing in the trail
Quick as chain lightning she drew her re-
volver from her belt and fired. The ball
struck Mr.. Wolf in the head, killing him
instantly She was the least bit frightened,
but looked at it in the coolest way and said
in the most matter of-fact voice possible:
Well, that was good shot, wasn't itH We
got off our horses, skinned the animal and
took the hide home for trophy She has it
now, | presume. What became of the
other! Oh, killed him but emptied sew
eral barrels and riddled the skin so it was
good for nothing.
Il also saw this lady in round UP
What's thats Well, it's when all the herd
ers OF cowboys get together and work I'D TO
a common centre, fencing in all the wild
animals running loose within certain ra-
dius. After they are all in-perhaps thirty
or forty grays, seventy, eighty or one hun
dred coYotes-then the fun commences,
riding to the centre, firing and killing the
animals. The round ups bring IN all the
BOYS from all sections around, somewhere
from three hundred to four hundred, and
YOU may believe there is some lively firing
Well, as | said, this young lady and friend
of hers Joined in one of these round ups
They were the only ladies in the run and
were in charge of the BOYS of our ranch
No more respect could be shown to them il
they had been queens. Every cowboy felt
they were especially in his care and they
were watched and yet allowed to shoot 70
their hearts content, and they did shoot in
great shape. One came out with seven gray
wolf scalps and six coyotes, and the other
four gray and ten coyotes and a polecat.
There is a bounty on wolf scalps-25c for
coyotes and 75c. or 81 for grays-so the
girls did pretty well.
''Who were the girls! Well, wouldn't
like TO give their names. They are daugh-
ta,.s Of wealthy Cleveland gentlemen nron1-
inent merchants, and they might object.
You see, people of the North know little of
the cowboys of Kansas. They think they
are a lot of low-lived fellows, always ready
to shoot and scalp somebody, whereas they
are gentlemanly class Of boys, Many Of
them are just from college. They study
themselves until i'll and go West to recu -
perate their health. They get it, too, for
they live in the saddle, become expert shots
and enter with zest into all outdoor pur-
suits that one here cannot understand
hope to go back this fall, see the boys and
go over the old stamping ground. / only
came back as the boys say, to take slice
of high life y